Date: 01/15/2007

Number: 1

My name is David Crutchfield. I live in Rockwall Texas just east of Dallas on Lake Ray Hubbard. On January 15, 2007 I was at home with my two sons John and Will. At 4:15 pm we were getting ready to go out when a large bird flew by the window. It was a Bald Eagle! It was flying low, it circled and hovered for over a minute. It then dove into the water immediately started to fly off with a Coot in it’s talons. If you look closely at slides 7 and 8 you can see the Coot below the Eagle. We watched the Eagle fly away and were amazed at what we had just witnessed. Now we were late jumped in the car to leave. I took my camera with me to show my wife Mary the pictures. About a block from our house I spotted the Eagle sitting in a large tree eating the Coot. We pulled over and I jumped out of the car and took some photos I then worked my way closer to the Eagle and took the last tree shot from about 50-75 foot distance.

Rockwall, TX

Latitude: 32.9 Longitude: -96.4

Observed by: David
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